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from: lyricalnanoha
date: 2009-01-12 18:15:14
subject: Re: From the WTF File: ProDOS and DOS 3.3 peacefully cohabiting

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Scott Alfter wrote:

> In article ,
> lyricalnanoha   wrote:
>> I threw this together:
>>
>> http://usotsuki.info/thedosescape.zip
>>
>> This contains a program I wrote to cram DOS 3.3 into 256 fewer bytes (by
>> disabling format and revectoring a couple patches) so that ProDOS need not
>> be overwritten.
>
> ...and up next: cats and dogs living together, followed by mass hysteria. :-)
>
> Combine this with a dual-format disk (a Nibble article featured a program
> that put DOS 3.3 and ProDOS on the same disk) and you'd have one disk that
> could boot both (would probably boot ProDOS first) and run programs for both
> of them.

Actually, I have such a tool (it's on Extra K).

The real trick would be running ProDOS stuff from DOS 3.3 (the - command 
stuff), but I got the Selector source and might be able to glean some info 
from it.

-uso.
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